modprobe nvidia fails on vanilla-sources-2.6.13-rc2

bassvandijk

modprobe nvidia gives the following error:

adaptr · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject:

You do not have the /dev/nvidiactl and /nvidia0 device nodes - the driver needs these to communicate with an nvidia card.
Check out your udev config and /etc/modules.d/nvidia settings; these should create the devices.
If the nodes are present in the modules.d/nvidia file you could try a manual module update to see if that helps any.
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dsd · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:32 pm Post subject:

no, you do not need those devices to be able to load the module (they come later). and udev can no longer create those devices, nvidia-glx handles it in a script.

the problem here is that you have enabled rivafb or nvidiafb. these are incompatible with nvidia's X drivers.
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re_re · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:11 pm Post subject:

do you have nvidia framebuffer compiled into the kernel?

i have the same problem with the 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 series kernels and i was told that the problem is nvidia framebuffer support.... i have nothing to substantiate this but it is worth a shot
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bassvandijk · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject:

cat .config | grep NVIDIA
# CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA is not set

cat .config | grep RIVA
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set

So both are not compiled into the kernel.

adaptr · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:47 pm Post subject:

bassvandijk · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject:

I did an modules_update an booted my vanilla-sources-2.6.13-rc2 kernel but I got the same error.

cat /etc/modules.conf | grep -i nvidia

HomerSimpson · l33t Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 869 Location: Ohio, USA

Although I am not running the same kernel I had the same error. I did not have the rivafb compiled in either. I finally came across this post and got it working again. I had DRM enabled. I did not intentionally enable it but it was enabled and I couldn't get the nvidia driver loaded.

I hope this helps
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bassvandijk · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:35 am Post subject:

I recompiled my vanilla-sources-2.6.13-rc2 kernel with this .config. But the problem remains.